Thousands of tonnes of household plastics thrown away on the New South Wales Central Coast could soon be destined to power cars and trucks - as a result of new technology being used for the first time in Australia.

The monstrosity that is Mad Max exploits every pop culture fad around and is just a glorified monster truck rally, but it achieves something few Aussie films do: it gives people precisely what they want.

On this episode: how any businesses can stay relevant to its customers; industry super funds respond the Government's Financial System Inquiry and why the New Zealand dollar is close to parity with the Australian dollar.

Japan's three biggest carmakers expand a huge global recall of cars containing potentially fatal airbags made by Takata Corp, saying they will take back millions of vehicles worldwide for investigation.

Iron ore miner Gindalbie Metals and a Goldfields councillor make separate applications to host a low-level radioactive waste dump in Western Australia, a move the Widi people describe as a "bolt out of the blue".